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The Centre for International Studies at the Université de Montréal, known as Cérium, is a research centre which specialization is international studies. The CÉRIUM is linked to the Université de Montréal.

Contents 1 Goals of Cérium 2 Cérium team 3 The research units 4 Cérium activities 5 Summer Schools 6 Videos 7 See also 7.1 Internal Links 7.2 External link

Launched in April 2004, Université de Montréal's Centre for International Studies (Cérium) is a vibrant new voice in the field of international research in Québec and Canada.

• Raymond Chrétien [1] (Chairman)
• François Crépeau (Scientific Director)
• Jean-François Lisée [2] (Executive Director)
• Jean-Philippe Thérien (Assistant Scientifc Director)

• Canadian Centre for German and European Studies
• Centre for East-Asian Studies
• Centre on Development of International Research on Environment
• Chair in American Political and Economic Studies
• Canada Research Chair on International Migratory Law
• Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration
• Research Group in International Security
• Institute for European Studies
• Research Group on Development
• International Economy Network
• Research Network on Peace Operations
• Middle-East Network
• Chair in Contemporary Mexican Studies

Every Spring, CERIUM organizes a major conference, alternating in focus between a European country and a North American topic. In the Spring of 2005, the conference What ever happened to Cool Britannia? The UK after eight years of Blair brought together thirty of the brightest scholars from Britain and North America to discuss the United Kingdom of Tony Blair. The Spring 2006 conference was entitled Conservative predominance in the U.S. A Moment or an Era?. Scholars from the US, Europe and Canada debated the different facts of American, and Canadian, conservatism. Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum was keynote speaker.

The Cérium offers intensive summer schools organized for citizens interested in international issues, as well as local and Foreign graduate students. These one week summer schools take place during the first two weeks of July, so during the Festival international de Jazz de Montréal.

For July 2007, the summer schools offered are:

• India: Suprising Modernity, under the responsibility of Christophe Jaffrelot, director of the CERI and specialist of India.
• China Risen: How it changes and changes us. The academic director of the school is Jean-Philippe Béja, senior researcher at the CERI.
• Comparative and International Environmental Law, with the intellectual support ofUNITAR(United Nations’ Institute for Training and Research)
• Peace Operations, under the responsibility of Jocelyn Coulon, director of the The Francophone Research Network on Peace Operations.

Many of the conferences held at Cérium are offered as online videos, in French and English. See Cérium's Vidéothèque.

• International relations

• CÉRIUM's official website